Been thinking about who does best compositions and possesses best songwriting skills in black metal.
I'm not talking about progressive, techinical, jazz etc black metal (i.e. Late Emperor, Axis Of Perdition, late Nachtmystium, etc).

As much as Varg is nowadays a target for derision, I would agree, and say that he is probably the only musician in this genre besides Quorthon who has managed to capture and recreate Wagner's sense of the grandeur. One need not look any further than the track “Det som en gang var” for a perfect example of Wagner’s structural premises reconstructed with black metal as a medium._________________

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CrucifixionWounds wrote:

Bolt Thrower didn't hold up well at all for me... no desire at all to ever listen to this band again.